Tech stack for my website

2025-10-16

I decided to get into the indie DIY meets tech side of the Internet and make a website. But since I don't know what to write about, I will start by summarizing my setup.

Below are the tools and resources I used:

Web host: Neocities

It can host up to 1GB for free and has a funky community.

An alternative would have been to host a Github Page but the community on Neocities looked more creative.

Deployment: Github Action

The online editor for Neocities is not really usable so I used Github Action to sync my Neocities websites with my Github repository. Your API token for Neocities can be fetched from https://neocities.org/settings/{{your-sitename}}#api_key.

Static site generator: Zola

I haven't done anything yet to understand what a static site generator is but I know it lets you write in Markdown and not in HTML, and that sounds pretty neat. There are other options like Hugo and Jekyll.

Styling

• Make images smaller with pinga
• Cool geometric backgrounds with magicpattern
• ChatGPT to convert CSS code to SASS/SCSS. I found more online templates in CSS but SASS is more readable.

Resources

• 32-bit cafe: Community of website makers
• Websites I found were amazing and got lost exploring + with some guidelines on how to go about your first steps: ribo.zone, pextrapixel, nenrikido

Should I be embarassed that it took me 2 days just to set all these things up with zero content? Maybe. But my only programming experiences are in ML/algorithms/silly stuff and I'm not an actual software engineer so bare with me.